Research and development

D-Lightsys research and development activities represent a large manpower investment.
D-Lightsys R&D follows two different orientations. The first one concerns D-Lightsys internal needs for new product designs , technology improvement and customers oriented developments.
The second R&D orientation corresponds to collaborations with research institutes, universities and industries in the frame of funded programs such as the 5th and 6th Framework Program of the European Commission. Collaborative R&D projects focuses on the various domains of materials, optoelectronic packaging, micro-technologies, optoelectronic simulations and system-level architectures.

Future products

D-Lightsys is currently working on several innovative products. The following can be mentioned :

Short distance free space optical interconnects
Full-duplex bidirectional single fibre single wavelength low cost transceivers
Low power consumption 10Gbps transceivers for demanding environments
4-channel parallel optical interconnect transceivers

Short distance free space optical interconnects

D-Lightsys is currently working on a new product family for free space optical interconnects up to 2.5Gbps on distances ranging from a few centimetres to 2 meters.
D-Lightsys aim is to produce highly position-tolerant optical link that could be associated to a patented dynamically re-configurable communication architecture, well suited for multicast or broadcast applications.
D-Lightsys free space optical modules will permit the design of re-configurable network solutions using one single wavelength for several users.
D-Lightsys free space modules will also target board-to-board optical data communications.

Full-duplex bidirectional single fibre transceivers

D-Lightsys is developing a single fiber single wavelength bi-directional transceiver. Such a low-cost module will permit transmission and reception over one single fibre, which, in turn, will enable a significant reduction of the weight and volume of the global data link. D-Lightsys patented architecture has recently been validated through a demonstration bench. Prototype versions of the module should be available at the end of 2005. The industrial product resulting from this activity will be included in the S-Light family.

10Gbps optical interconnect transceivers

Future 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GE) based systems are already under development. D-Lightsys will expand its S-Light family of transceivers with a 10Gbps severe environment compliant module. This module will target the 10GE physical standard performances and will be compatible with the aerospace environment requirements.

4-channel parallel optical interconnect transceivers

D-Lightsys will expand its D-Light parallel module family with several parallel transceiver modules integrating 4 transmitters and 4 receivers within a single package.

Feel free to contact us if you would like additional information on these developments.